A nice way to end the year. 🍾🥂

Blood Sacrifice by Douglas Jackson Format: Hardback Published by: Canelo Published: 14.11.24 Synopsis: As hunger grips the Warsaw ghetto, is a cannibal loose on the streets? January 1943. Warsaw. City of the dead. In the ghetto, the…

Blood Sacrifice by Douglas Jackson another 5* slice of Historical crime fiction set in Poland during WWII a richly atmospheric read, my review @dougwriter.bsky.social @canelobooks.bsky.social #BloodSacrifice #BookReview #BookSky

The best books of 2024: Allan Massie picks his highlights Allan Massie selects his ten most memorable reads of the year

'This is art which is true to life at its worst but also at its most heroic.'

The Scotsman's literary critic Allan Massie has chosen my novel Blood Sacrifice as one of his Books of the Year among a fabulous list.

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Crime Time FM: THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE 2024 THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE 2024: Maxim Jakubowski, Ayo Onatade, Jake Kerridge, Victoria Selman, Paul Burke and compare Barry Forshaw discuss their crime fiction best books of the year. The fu...

A Christmas cracker from the Crime Time gang, and Blood Sacrifice gets an honourable mention about eight m minutes from the end.

'I think it [The Warsaw Quartet] has the potential to be absolutely wonderful.'

High praise indeed, from Maxim Jakubowski.

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Work done, time to read, another favourite author is Doug Jackson, Blood Sacrifice is out now @dougwriter.bsky.social @canelobooks.bsky.social

My Top 10 reads of the year is prepped, incoming soon, one of the hardest years to choose from, I’ve read plenty of amazing books this year

Not every day your book appears between cracking reads by @sophiehannah.bsky.social and Chris Whitaker! My Ngaio Marsh Award-winning historical thriller RITUAL OF FIRE is just 99p during December: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B... @panmacmillan.bsky.social

A reminder that around 90% of startups fail

Day 4 of Book Advent featuring some of my standout reads of the year @dougwriter.bsky.social #BookAdvent #BookSky

LIke many arts/culture freelancers on tenterhooks waiting to hear how funding decisions made by the Scottish Government and Creative Scotland affect our futures, I am available for work. Festival/event programming, writing, editing, interviews, etc. Get in touch if I can be of use, please!

Philip Pullman: Our literary life is under threat Philip Pullman: Our rich and varied literary life is under threat from proposals for a new pricing structure on what we read.

Written 20 years ago, by Philip Pullman, if you're an ardent book person you probably read it at the time, and if not, worth reading now: BOOKS ARE NOT EGGS aka 'literary units'
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'This is historical ‘noir’ at its most potent and a series that you will never forget, blood, torture and all.'

A fabulous review of Blood Roses by Maxim Jakubowski on Crime Time.

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The Scotsman's fantastic review of Blood Sacrifice.

'A novel of rare intelligence and ambition'.

Who knew my books would become a prime investment opportunity? If anyone's prepared to pay this much for a paperback, I have a box of them in the garage. I'll even sign them and call the £11.70 the delivery charge. 🤣 💰💰💰

Always special to come home to Goldsboro Books post, today it’s Douglas Jackson and Blood Sacrifice, looking forward to reading. One of today’s finest writers of historical fiction @goldsborobooks.bsky.social @dougwriter.bsky.social

Published tomorrow in the USA! 'Battle Song' in paperback. This is the first book in my Medieval England trilogy, set amid the turmoil of the Second Barons' War. The subsequent two books should get a US paperback release over the coming year!

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Blood Sacrifice by Douglas Jackson review: 'a novel of rare intelligence and ambition' Set in Warsaw during the Second World War, Douglas Jackson’s new novel finds his resistance fighter Jan Kalisz attempting to smuggle weapons into the ghetto. Review by Allan Massie

I'm quite humbled by this fantastic review of Blood Sacrifice by Allan Massie in TheScotsman newspaper.

'One can confidently say that these first two novels [of the Warsaw Quartet] display an intelligence and ambition rare in Scottish fiction today.'

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Drone photo of timber framework within stone pier base remains in floor of river Teviot under extant later 18thC bridge - photo by the late Richard Strathie a member of Ancrum & District Heritage Society.

Scotland’s ‘newest’ medieval bridge, Ancrum Old Bridge - now precisely dated using dendro-isotopes in collab with Swansea Uni.

Discovered 2018 by local community group ADHS.

I’ll reveal the date at ELBAC tomorrow, talks to be recorded. Can’t wait that long? See link in thread below
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Cheers Lee!

a close up of a person 's face with makeup and pearls Alt: Amid flashing lights Dr Frank N Furter looks up in triumph and shouts Oh, Rocky! It's a scene from The Rocky Horror Picture Show starring the delectable Tim Curry. Love that the auto-suggested caption is "a close up of a person 's face with makeup and pearls". I used to go see TRHPS at least once a month at the Hollywood Cinema in Avondale. Dressed up, throw rice, the works. I can still shout most of the audience participation lines unprompted.

Welcome to the lifeboat party! I'm D. V. Bishop, author of the Cesare Aldo historical thrillers set in Renaissance Italy. Love books, reading, and helping other writers.

In my Copious Spare Time™ I write comics, lead three creative writing programmes, and am trying to finish a PhD.

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Happy publication day to me. I'll add the traditional embellishment to the trophy cabinet a bit later. Blood Roses is Book 2 of The Warsaw Quartet. Be fascinated to discover what everyone thinks of it.

This is such sad news. He was instrumental in kicking off my writing career when he intoned ‘And the Emperor Claudius rode in triumph on his elephant at Colchester’ on Simon Schama’s History of Britain. Such a lovely man. RIP, sir.

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Give them a shout out and we can get a Starter Pack going for this as well

Reality vs perception Difficult book = happier reader?

I write about the circumstances of creating new work can imprint themselves on your perception of that work in my free author newsletter this week: dvbishop.substack.com/p/reality-vs... @panmacmillan.bsky.social

Dunstanburgh Castle stands on an earlier IronAge promontory fort. #HillfortsWednesday

A Victorian-era scientist holds up a bubbling test tube. His shadow is cast on the wall behind him, but it is the shadow of a hideous monster in a top hat!

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If you enjoy reading historical fiction, you might like to give my acclaimed Valerius series a try. Nine books, seven emperors, countless enemies, one hero. Ancient Rome brought to life in all its bloody glory.

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Hi, I'm an author of historical novels, crime fiction and mystery thrillers. I've just moved here to shamelessly plug my books, be awed by nature and disappointed at politicians. If you use 'woke' as an insult don't bother following me. Otherwise, all welcome.

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